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The seal of U.S. Interior Department is seen during a news conference May 11, 2010 in Washington, DC. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar announced that he would split the Minerals Management Service into two agencies, one would in charge the inspection of oil rigs, investigation of oil companies, and enforcement of safety regulations, as the other would supervise drilling leases and royalty dollar collections. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Interior's internal FOIA policy gives political appointees sign-off on document releases, raising concerns

Canadian government says taxes from reapproved pipeline expansion project will go toward green energy

Pharmacy tests turn up another cancer-causing compound in heart drugs

The unmanned submarine undertook its inaugural mission in April 2017.

Boaty McBoatface makes significant climate change discovery on first mission

Boaty McBoatface's undertook its first mission in April 2017

Boaty McBoatface makes significant find

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) poses for a portrait in Washington on Jan. 7, 2019. Just over 100 years ago, the first woman was sworn into Congress. Now a record 131 women are serving in the Legislature. (Celeste Sloman/The New York Times)

In photos: Presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar

These 100 year old homes are on the cutting edge of energy efficiency

Tsunamis expected in Japanese coastal regions after earthquake

San Cristobal is one of the four inhabited islands in the Galapagos, where growing human population and influx of tourism has created challenges in conserving the UNESCO World Heritage site and its endemic wildlife. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images for Lumix)

Outcry as Ecuador allows US military to use Galapagos airstrip

Making an old home healthier for you and the environment

This colorized scanning electron micrograph, SEM, depicted a flagellated Vibrio vulnificus bacterium; Magnified 26367x. Vibrio vulnificus is a bacterium in the same family as those that cause cholera. It normally lives in warm seawater and is part of a gr

Flesh-eating bacteria in New Jersey reveal one possible effect of climate change, study says

Elephants are seen on the Niassa reserve in Africa.

No elephants have been hunted in this African wildlife preserve in more than a year, officials say

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Rooftop gardens in Cairo

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Who can salvage the situation in Nairobi

Green roofs are sprouting up on buses

In this photo taken on Thursday, June 13, 2019 sled dogs make their way in northwest Greenland with their paws in melted ice water. Diplomats and climate experts gathered Monday in Germany for U.N.-hosted talks on climate change amid growing public pressure for governments to act faster against global warming. Over the weekend, a picture taken by Danish climate researchers showing sled dogs on the ice in northwest Greenland with their paws in melted ice water was widely shared on social media. Greenland's ice melting season normally runs from June to August but the Danish Meteorological Institute said this year's melting started on April 30, the second-earliest time on record going back to 1980. (Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut/Steffen M. Olsen via AP)

Photo of sled dogs walking through water shows reality of Greenland's melting ice sheet

HUAINAN, CHINA - JUNE 13: Chinese workers ride in a boat through a large floating solar farm project under construction by the Sungrow Power Supply Company on June 13, 2017 in Huainan, Anhui province, China.

They want to create floating islands to convert sunlight into energy. Here's how they'd work

Why can't we seem to care about climate change?

Harnessing India's sunny days for power

India's monsoon lasts only about four months a year, forcing farmers to find other sources of water for the remaining eight months.

Indian farmers are using the sun to help water their crops

Water pours down an irrigation channel from a groundwater pump and well next to a field of rice growing on farmland in the Bhagpat district of Uttar Pradesh, India, on Monday, Sept. 3, 2018. Cumulative rainfall during August and September is forecast to be 95 percent of a 50-year average, according to the India Meteorological Department. The monsoon is critical to the farm sector as it accounts for more than 70 percent of India's annual showers and irrigates more than half the country's farmland. Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Farmers are using the sun to help water their crops

How he got 200,000 people to buy ugly fruits and vegetables

The Norwegian island of Sommarøy wants to declare itself the world's first time-free zone

Norway island wants to be world's first time-free zone

7 reasons to visit Hoi An, one of Vietnam's most beautiful towns

Climate change threatens nearly 40% of the world's primates, study says

A picture shows a parched section of the Wayoh Reservoir spanned by the Armsgrove Viaduct at Edgworth near Bolton, northwest England, on August 1, 2018 as dry and hot conditions were set to continue in much of Britain during a heatwave in Europe. - Britain has experienced its driest first half to a summer on record, with temperatures topping 30 degrees Celsius for several days, according to the Met Office. Wayoh reservoir supplies drinking water to the northwest Town of Bolton in Greater Manchester. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) (Photo credit should read PAUL ELLIS/AFP/Getty Images)

Future summers will 'smash' temperature records every year

On Dec. 24, 2013, NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer, participates in the second of two spacewalks, spread over a four-day period, which were designed to allow the crew to change out a degraded pump module on the exterior of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. He was joined on both spacewalks by NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, whose image shows up in Hopkins' helmet visor.
The pump module controls the flow of ammonia through cooling loops and radiators outside the space station, and, combined with water-based cooling loops inside the station, removes excess heat into the vacuum of space.
Image Credit: NASA

What it takes to be an astronaut: the real 'right stuff'

Anantara Bazaruto Island Resort

Bazaruto Archipelago: The Mozambique islands where horses play in the surf

PEBBLE BEACH, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 16: Gary Woodland of the United States poses with the trophy after winning the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links on June 16, 2019 in Pebble Beach, California. (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)

Gary Woodland: How a Special Olympics golfer inspired new US Open champion

PEBBLE BEACH, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 16: Gary Woodland of the United States poses with the trophy after winning the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links on June 16, 2019 in Pebble Beach, California. (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)

Gary Woodland wins U.S. Open at Pebble Beach

Gary Woodland celebrates on the 18th green after winning the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links on June 16, 2019.

Gary Woodland wins 119th US Open, his first major title

A sea turtle nest sign is seen on Miami Beach.

A woman was arrested in Florida for allegedly stomping on sea turtle nests

The new target sees emissions cut to net zero by 2050.

What would life be like in a zero-carbon country?

Democrats court black voters at South Carolina forum

The Fram Strait, between Greenland & Svalbard, is the main gateway through which sea ice leaves the Arctic Ocean. On their way south towards the Atlantic Ocean, this is where ice floes like these come to die.

Greenland lost 2 billion tons of ice this week, which is very unusual

US President Donald Trump uses gold scissors to cut a red tape tied between two stacks of papers representing the government regulations of the 1960s (L) and the regulations of today (R) after he spoke about his administration's efforts in deregulation in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on December 14, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Trump wants radically less government. Here's what that looks like.

City of dissent: Hong Kong has a proud tradition of protesting to protect its unique identity

Bahrain underwater theme park

Bahrain underwater theme park featuring Boeing jet to open in August

A road in Colorado

Plan a road trip adventure for Father's Day, kids optional

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W. Kamau Bell: Heed the warning sign toxic cities are sending

A US Border Patrol vehicle drives along a section of border fence near the US-Mexico border on June 12, 2019, in Hidalgo, Texas. (Photo by Loren ELLIOTT / AFP) (Photo credit should read LOREN ELLIOTT/AFP/Getty Images)

Body of a 6-year-old girl from India is found in the Arizona desert

FLINT, MI - JANUARY 21: Fred the handyman explains the new water filter to Mary Stewart and Terrence Tyler at their residence in Shiloh Commons January 21, 2016 in Flint, Michigan. The city's water supply had been contaminated by lead after a switch from Lake Huron to the Flint river as a source in April, 2014. At a local fire station, residents were provided with water testing jugs, filters and clean water brought in by the National Guard. Residents also brought in water samples from their homes which would be sent out for lead testing. (Photo by Sarah Rice/Getty Images)

Prosecutors drop criminal charges in Flint water scandal

Life on the streets of Central Havana

Cuba Fast Facts

The California Coastal Commission will use a large chunk of the $1.6 million to acquire land just north of the hotel.

They blocked access to the public beach. Now the hotel is getting a gut punching $1.6 million fine